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SUNY/CID, as a partner to ARD, Inc., holds a place through September 2008 on the International Governmental Integrity and Anti-corruption Technical Assistance IQC from USAID/Global Bureau’s Center for Democracy and Governance. ARD, with SUNY/CID and its other partners, competes with other short-listed firms to provide services to host government institutions, civil society organizations, and the private sector in order to curb governmental corruption. The focus of this IQC is on abuses by government officials such as embezzlement and nepotism, as well as abuses linking public and private actors such as bribery, extortion, influence peddling, and fraud.

SUNY/CID’s role as a member of the team is to provide technical assistance in the area of anticorruption as it relates to the development of legislative and other deliberative bodies and in the area of assessment, evaluation, and analysis of anticorruption programs. SUNY/CID engages in activities such as:

· Helping to build political will to strengthen legislative bodies;

· Strengthening the representation, lawmaking, and executive oversight capacity of legislative bodies;

· Improving the infrastructure and management capacity of legislative bodies; and

· Connecting and building relationships between deliberative bodies and other governmental bodies or civil society organizations.